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I’ve only ever had one church job where they complained that I never played long enough postludes! (It was a congregation with a number of professors.) Usually, people are out the back door before the organist gets to the first cadence…all too often in Catholic parishes some folks go straight from receiving communion right out the back door and on to the golf course..no waiting for that “Ite missa est!” This is a bunch of my short pieces that I’ve thought of releasing as a collection titled “Short, fast, not-too-difficult, organ postludes!” Not the snappiest title, but better than the one collection (that someone actually released) titled “Graveyard Favorites.” (“Graveyard” being a slang publishing term, more properly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgue_file.) Organists have a somewhat October-ish sense of humor.

You can listen to the whole bunch at this free streaming link: https://soundcloud.com/hilton-kean-jones/sets/single-organ-pieces. They follow one another automatically…you just click play and off it goes.

Sheet music for the individual movements are available under my name on sheetmusicplus.com and sheetmusicdirect.com.

The trumpet on the last piece can be played by the organ. Organists are familiar with what to do in those situations from many different Baroque trumpet & organ pieces. Of course, it can be played with organ too. I’ve been scrounging my files trying to get together all my trumpet hymn tune descants. They’re penciled into various hymns scattered hither and yon, so that may never be entirely complete.